“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t take their eyes

 

of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on

 

were almost chest to chest

 

it must be my appearance you’re at least not

 

like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than you in my

 

doing here, then? Hurry up

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

closer, as if there was

 

participate in the

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to her. There was nothing

 

was twice her size, but he went

 

why I

 

and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching

 

and hopeless

 

woman’s eyes

 

this dream, after

 

smiled at me—a meaningless, sad

 

chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see previously

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk.

 

into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows

 

***

 

had me twitching, trying to

 

my head. I tried to lift my hand,

 

I? Who got me here?

 

through the broken fragments of my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm underneath me jostling me

 

I wanted to cry.

 

looking like he hadn’t

 

just looked at him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face untouched.

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

bangs, the movement taking everything

 

almost a whisper in the soft breeze.

 

wasn’t really thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really

 

I had done in this life, all of it flashed before

 

a stranger in my own body thinking

 

him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well,

 

“What…?”

 

time. I’ve never really been me. All I

 

I knew very well, something that had

 

to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling

 

been

 

“Always.”

 

knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people around you

 

in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything.

 

at first until I pressed hard on the bone

 

a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing

 

was free, he could embrace me fully,

 

burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his masculine

 

why my head felt

 

but I didn’t remember it at

 

it’s not your fault. It’s not always all about you, you

 

arrogant man,

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